The festival's Jo Nixon says it has been a great success and the highlight has been the participation of women from local town camps.

"I think the big thing for this year has been including the women from the town camps of Alice Springs and bringing them down to the festival," she said.

"They're first-time beanie makers ... they've indicated to us they want to be here, they want to be at the festival, they want to be sharing what's going on at the festival and it's a great honour for us."

She says visitor numbers so far have been especially good, given the hard times facing the local tourism industry.

"We're right on track for similar takings and numbers through the door as last year, which is really amazing considering tourism numbers are down in the centre, so we're getting good numbers through the door, so that's great," she said.